Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every man voted not for a member of the same petty clique, but for the candidate who really seemed most worthy of the position. Slurs on the harmony of the class are utterly silenced. The large number of elections by acclamation or by a unanimous vote, the ease and speed with which the election was carried on, prove completely the practical unanimity of opinion throughout the class. There was but little canvassing before the election, and the attempts that had been made were, we are happy to say, completely defeated. If it seems that too small a number of offices...
...thrown his leg over the animal's back than the mule started, first with five or six buckjumps of twenty feet or more, and then went off at a tangent down the road, his tail high in the air, puffing fire from his nostrils, and increasing his speed at every jump, whilst the poor detective, bouncing like an india-rubber ball on his back, landed alternately upon the sharp protuberances of the army saddle, and cried to him to stop, that he wanted to get off and walk...
...NOTMAN.THE new steam launch will be taken to New London with the Crew. It has already proved most valuable for coaching purposes, and made a mile in 3 min. 40 sec., on a trial of speed the other...
...yards dash, Wendell was almost pocketed at the start, but by a magnificent display of his speed on the last 100 yards, he won in 24 3/5 sec. Brown, '83 (Columbia), was second...
...waters onward speed...